Microsoft Open Sources Visual Studio Code, Releases New Beta With Extensions Support

At this year’s Connect();,Nov. 18-19, Microsoft announced number of innovations around Microsoft developer tools. Microsoft released Visual Studio Code beta as an open source project, available on GitHub. The new beta version of the cross-platform code editor, which has already been downloaded more than 1 million times in preview, includes a new extension model for Visual Studio Code with a gallery of extensions for additional features, themes and language support.